Saludos de España!
Things that made me happy this week...
- Talking
to Sister Cha who's home from her mission now. All my trainers are home now and
it's cool to be able to talk to them. I can't believe that's going to be in 7
and a half months. Ew.
- Receiving
39 referrals. Most of them came from the old area books. There are teaching
records of people who were taught anywhere between 1 to 6 years ago. We went
through them, called some people up, and we have plans to meet with them this
week. Who knows, maybe now is their time!
- The
talk the AP's gave at our district meeting about faith, power, and miracles.
They talked about how God has the power to make absolutely anything happen. We
just have to have faith and show Him we believe miracles can happen, and then be
the means by which those miracles are brought to pass. Our mission goal is 1000
baptisms this year and we're only at 174, which means it'll take a miracle to
reach that goal. But it can happen because the Lord is on our side and He is a
God of miracles.
- Gusto
came to the baptism we invited him to. It was Hermana Rica's very first baptism
and she was super nervous but everything turned out perfectly. The kid's name
was Noslen and he brought his parents who aren't members. It was really
cool.
- Remembering
it was Mom & Tom's anniversary on Friday and thinking about Hawaii all day.
Happy Anniversary by the way! So weird that I was 11 when we went to Hawaii the
first time, and here we are 11 years later.
- MARCO
calling US and asking to meet, which never happens. We read the Book of Mormon
together and afterwards I asked him to come to church. He said no, that he
couldn't because he would be at a friends house. I said some things that made
him think about his priorities and he agreed to come. Then he came and stayed
all three hours!
- The
sweet ladies who fed us lunch after church - one of them turned to me and goes,
''You know, I used to think you were stuck up. But you're actually really
nice!'' ...that always happens to me
- I
SAW RAFA AT THE TEMPLE! It's been a whole month or so since I'd seen that dude.
But we had a little heart to heart while we watched the MTC missionaries sing
and I told him he was gonna serve a mission one day and when he does, he's be up
there singing with them. He said he'll go to the New York Manhattan Mission :)
He's also coming to Inussa's baptism on Friday!
It was a good week, but I'm hoping this one will be even
better. On Wednesday evening we're going to sing in the park with the Sullivans.
They are one of the senior couples I flew out here with - he's in the MTC
presidency and they work with the JAS (YSA). Anyhow, so they were in the MOTAB
for like 15 years and obviously they have beauuuutiful voices, so I'm excited to
sing with them. On Friday is Inussa's baptism. He's the other hermanas'
investigator, but we see him all the time too and I love that man. I'm so happy
he's getting baptized! Then Saturday is the ward talent show that the YM and YW
are in charge of and they've asked us to do something. We'll see how that
goes...
Then Sunday is our ward's Missionary Sunday. The original
plan was for Elder Pizarro, me, and two ward missionaries to speak and then have
a musical number by us and the Primary, but President Jackson just sent us an
email saying we're going to watch the worldwide missionary broadcast in our
wards this Sunday, so I'm not sure what on earth is going on. Haha if I do have
to speak though, I'm going to be super nervous. I can talk forever in English,
but 10 minutes in Spanish in front of 200 people is going to seem like an
eternity. But speaking of the missionary broadcast, I'm super pumped to watch
it. No one tells us anything, so we didn't hear about it til last night when
Hermana Sullivan mentioned it. But it sounds really cool. It's incredible how
the Lord is hastening His work with more missions, more missionaries, and all
these new missionary tools. We're turning into an unstoppable force, and that's
just as it should be. I can't wait for Conner to get his call! You must email me
immediately okay? I secretly hope he gets sent to the Spain Madrid Mission -
that'd be neat. It's an exciting time to be a missionary and I'm happy to get to
share this experience with him.
Well, I love you all. So so much. Don't forget that
:)
Love,
Hermana Munden
''And now, behold, I say unto you, that the thing which will
be of the most worth unto you will be to declare repentance unto this people,
that you may bring souls unto me, that you may rest with them in the kingdom of
my Father. Amen.'' (D&C 15:6)
I can't wait to rest with all my Provo and Spain people ''in
the kingdom of my Father'' :)
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